File for form slips and the like



Patented Aug. 12, 1941 FILE FOR. FORM SLIPS AND THE LIKE Leo Breuer, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany Application October 14, 1938, Serial No. 235,048 In Germany December 20, 1937 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a file for form slips and other small written papers.

The filing hooks known for collecting such form slips cannot be filed in ordinary filing racks as they are only arranged for hanging up, and as they lack the foldable cover they are of entirely different shape to the files. In the files of known construction the filing device is perpendicular to the cover. Consequently, such files with backs of the usual width are very uneconomical as their filing device must be the same as that of the files intended for filing letters and other large papers and, owing to the small size of the form slips, will not be utilized to best advantage.

Consequently, according to the invention the filing device is arranged parallel to the cover of the file. The filing device itself may be of any desired construction; it preferably consists of long filing tubes in which the two arms of a looking rod bent in U-shape are insertedand close the ends of the tubes. With the aid of this U- shaped rod the long filing tubes, which have to carry considerable weight when the file is full, are, according to another feature of the invention, supported on the cover in that the rod inserted in the open ends of the filing tubes engages in a hook fixed on the cover. The rod may engage in the supporting hook on the cover either directly or through the intermediary of a separate loop slidably guided on the rod.

The filing device may also be exchangeably connected to the file and, when full, can be stored separately from the file; thus the cover of the file can be used repeatedly by exchanging the filing device. Finally, when the file is full the collected file slips can be stored on the looking rods inserted in the filing tubes of its filing device, the ends of these rods being provided with a locking device, for example with a transverse plate held in position by nuts screwed on to the ends of the arms of the rod. In this instance only the locking rod would have to be renewed when the file is to be used again. The filled locking rods can be stored in a closed box.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 shows in top plan view a file with cover open, and

Fig. 2 shows the file in side elevation.

The invention disclosed includes a file and cover, the latter comprising a wrapper 3 connected at one end thereof by means of a flexible strip 5 to one edge of a back 6, while the other edge of the back 6 is hingedly connected to a cover I.

The file comprises a pair of filing tubes I and 2 extending parallel to the wrapper 3 in spaced relation thereto with corresponding ends of the filing tubes l and 2 connected to one leaf of a strap hinge M with the other leaf of the strap hinge connected to the back 6 of the cover as shown in Fig. 2. A U-shaped frame rod comprising parallel side legs 8 connected by a cross rod I5 offset therefrom as illustrated in Fig. 2 has said side legs received in the filing tubes I and 2 as illustrated. A keeper hook I6 is carried by the wrapper 3 of the file cover adjacent the free ends of the filing tubes l and 2 and is adapted to be automatically engaged by the cross rod [5 of the file when the cover portion 1 is moved to its closed position.

With the cover of the file in open position, the cross rod l5 of the file is normally spaced from the hook l6 carried by the wrapper 3 so that when closing the file, the hinges M, due to the flexible strip 5 connecting the wrapper 3 to the back 6, will move slightly to the right in Fig. 2 and thereby cause the cross rod [5 to slide laterally beneath the hook [6 to automatical engage the same.

I claim:

A file for form slips and the like, comprising in combination a foldable wrapper in the form of a book cover and a filing device accommodated within said wrapper and having two threading tubes hingedly mounted on the back of said wrapper adjacent the fold thereof and extending parallel to the two side portions of the wrapper when the file is closed, and a U- shaped rod with two parallel arms adapted to be inserted one in each of said tubes and connected by a cross member adapted to rest on one of the side portions of the wrapper, said filing device being movable longitudinally of the wrapper when the cover of the wrapper is moved to closed position, and means on said wrapper adapted to have the cross member moved into automatic engagement therewith when the file is being closed.

LEO BREUER. 

